Katherine Dunn Quotes
It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'
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The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
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Louis C.K. was able to make it happen. His producers don't bug him. He's able to go into his cave and write exactly what he wants to write, and there are no decisions made by committee, and you have a singular voice, and everyone's like, 'Oh my God! We love this.'
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I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.
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I really love to play physical. That's when I feel like I'm at my best... I seek it out.
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Sometimes, I think I have the best job in the world.
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You ask every conceivable question after Sept. 11 in terms of what more could have been done, what could have been done differently. My impression from working on these cases and investigations for almost nine years was that an awful lot of people were working over time to connect dots.
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I've grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.
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There's so much pressure on women to have it all together. There's always this 'next, next, next.' I hope Glossier encourages women to be O.K. wherever you are. Just, everyone, relax!
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As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.
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'Torches' flowed together with interesting intros and outros. It was all very natural.
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Windows were the first thing we made ourselves. Other products, such as cement and plasterboard, came later. Some of the factories we actually built because of union blockades trying to stop us getting supplies.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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We are extremely attractive to page companies, because we significantly increase their user base.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.
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Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
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It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'
